One day in late spring of 1928, fourteen-year-old high school sophomore Boyd Manson Jones decided he was going to ride his horse from his home outside Gallup, New Mexico, all the way to Washington,...
Genealogy / History / Postcard Story
by David · Published May 12, 2019 · Last modified March 13, 2022
It has been quite some time since I published one of my Postcard Stories. The reason is that I came across a postcard whose author is connected to a convoluted web of interesting characters....
I have always liked Graham Nash’s song, Cathedral, and it is hard not to hum it when strolling through the Santa Fe national cemetery while taking gravestone photos for people. I’m always scanning others...
Sonya has been getting into graphic design lately and a by-product of that is picking up a bit of Photoshop skills. That has also lead to an interest in photography and image quality beyond...
With Sears now in decline and fading fast it is interesting to look back at how this mighty giant was once a major threat to established brick and mortar stores at its founding. Richard...
Software Used I used Adobe Photoshop along with a logo that was initially created in Adobe Illustrator. However, you could do this tutorial entirely with the free and open-source application Gimp. Blank Rectangular Canvas...
A B-29 with a crew of 13 crashed into the Manzano Mountains about 3 minutes after taking off from Kirtland Air Force base, at 9:41pm on 11 April, 1950. The plane and crew had...
Cemetery Tale / History / Social Justice
by David · Published May 2, 2018 · Last modified December 5, 2023
A reader sent me the photo of a grave stone with Japanese characters and asked if I knew any details about it. Their (correct) assumption was that the tombstone was related to the victims...
I recently started taking cemetery photos for the website FindAGrave.com. The site has been useful to me in my genealogy research and this is my way of giving back. The way it works is...
23 July 1945. That is the date my Uncle Otto Anthony Mittelstadt and his plane, a model F4U-4 Corsair only months old, disappeared off the coast of Okinawa just as WWII was coming to...
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